viiiThe material appearing in this text is limited to plastic deformation and damage in ductile materials (e.g. metals and metal matrix composites). The authors elect to exclude many of the recent advances made in creep, brittle fracture, and temperature effects. The authors feel that these topics require a separate volume for this presentation. Furthermore, the applications presented in the book are the simplest possible ones and are mainly based on the uniaxial tension test. The presentation of more challenging examples is left to the researchers in this field. This book does not claim to revolutionize the way in which research is done in this area, but it does advance a few new ideas and it does have several noteworthy features:

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